English dictionary
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English noun: category | |||
| 1. | category (group) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | ||
| Samples | There are two classes of detergents. | ||
| Synonyms | class, family | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | brass family, conjugation, declension, denomination, grammatical category, histocompatibility complex, paradigm, sex, stamp, substitution class, syntactic category, violin family, woodwind family | ||
| Member holonym | superphylum | ||
| 2. | category (cognition) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | concept, conception, construct | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | form, kind, pigeonhole, rubric, sort, variety, way | ||
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